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VOL. XV.
EDITORIAL NOTES.
The legislature chartered the Ma¬
con and Opelika raihoad, which the
Macon Telegraph says is backed by
istrong business men who will push
the enterprise. It will pass through
Harris county if built.
The State Fair is pronounced the
most successful ever held. President
Northern took hold when defeat was
imminent and by a single master
stroke assured its success. He de¬
serves great credit for his manage¬
ment.
The Leary Courier reached us
this week in a new dress, which very
greatly improves its appearance. It
is one of the best and sprightliest of
our weekly exchanges, and it affords
us pleasure to note this evidence of
its prosperity.
The editor of the Hamilton Jour¬
nal expresses himself prettily as well
as loyally when he says that he propo¬
ses to accompany “the first lady of
the land to the Piedmont Exposition.”
(n these days when we hear so much
twaddle about “the first lady of the
land,” the above is really refreshing.
Of course every man’s wife ought to
be “the first lady in the land” with
him.—Carrollton Free Press.
c Mr. H. C. Hanson, formerly bus
«iess manager of the Macon Tele
;^raph, has purchased an interest Aas in
the Columbus Enquirer an been
elected editor and manager of that
paper. He is a gentleman of fine
executive ability, of liberal yet
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Servative views, and has shown ^
self posiessed of superior skill as
newspaper manager. He will
a valuable acquisition to
as well as to the Enquirer.
The Piedmont "Exposition was
monetary success, but some of
business methods would have put
blush an unprincipled director of
traveling circus. The exhibition
was advertised at an expense of less
than $400, through the generosity
the press, yet the complimentary pass
was surrounded by such a red tap
JOSEPH L.DENNIS,
PROPRIETOR.
process that scores of editors paid
their way into the grounds in com
mon with hundreds of other invited
guests.
There were a great many jugs
shipped from Griffin 10 Atlanta last
week. One of our informants saw
upwards of 200 at the station await¬
ing shipment. Griffin is the nearest
source of supply to Atlanta and the
principal one. It probably supplies
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a third of the whiskey used in Atlan¬
ta, and if the third did not exceed
200 gallons a day during the biggest
days of the exposition, it cannot be
claimed longer that prohibition does
not greatly diminish the consumption
of the vile stuff. Hamilton has one
inhabitant for every one hundred that
Atlanta has, and yet we have seen
200 gallons and more of whiskey
delivered here in a single day.
The prohibition fight has opened
in dead earnest in Atlanta. There
are prohi and anti organizations and
the fight, although short, will be a
lively one. It was proposed to com¬
promise on high license, but your
genuine prohibitionist thinks that the
more style a saloon puts on, the
more evil it does. High license is a
semi-protection to the poor. It is a
greater temptation to the well to do.
It brings down less game, but it gets
the better sort. It took hard work
to win the fight two years ago and it
will take hard work to do it again,
but we have much faith in the good
people ot Atlanta and more in the
prayers of good people everywhere.
The contest is viewed with universal
interest.
A consultation last week between
the officers in charge of the several
railroads chartered to run from Bir
mingham, through Macon to the At
lantic, held in Atlanta, resulted in
a partial consolidation and^ union of
the several interests. The agreement
has not been made public, but it
said to be such as insures a common
roadbed for seventy miles out from
Birmingham, with branches there;
one by LaGrange aod Macon to Sa
vannah; the other by West Point to
Brunswick. This latter will go
HAMILTON, GA., OCTOTBER 28,1887.
tirely through Harris county and will
give us railroad facilities second to
county in Georgia, The consolida¬
ted systems include the
Dublin & Western road, work upon
which is now actively progressing It
has already seventy miles graded ou*
from Savannah, has 700 hands now;
at work and expects to be running
trains through to Macon early in
January. ;
We are glad to see the papers tak
ing hold of the cotton tax question
again. The farmers of Harris county
paid taxes in 1865, ’66 and ’67 on
nearly 40,000 bales of cotton, at
$2.50 per bale. The Supreme
ot the United States decided
ago that tnis tax was unconstitution¬
al. For twenty years and more this
money, obtained illegally from an
impoverished people, at the very
point of the bayonet, has lain idle in
a now overflowing treasury,
of the farmers of Harris county who
contributed to the $100,000 which
the county paid, are now alive and
not too old to enjoy their ow.i, which
should be returned to them with in¬
terest. Any part of the tax that it
is now impossible to restore to the
parties from whom it was collected,
or their heirs, might be appropriated
to educational purposes in the state
from which it was collected, but the
major portion can easily be restored
to the proper persons.
THE COTTON BELT.
Southwest Georgia is often refefred
to as the cotton belt of the Stale.
1 his is a popular error. The ,be*t
short staple cotton is grown*, mi the
county of Harris andjjhe' ‘Cduftt'feJ
contiguous to it, and these coqqties
i are he largest producer*. A bui« ( of
j Talbot county cotton, grown wit ftp
a mile of the Harris county line, wafc
awarded $500 at Louisville, $Cy 7 ' a
few years ago, and at a number^f
j State fairs Talbot has carrieu off the
blue ribbon, Harris never having on-
1 tered the contest. Spinners recog¬
nize the superiority of our cfottOh
and it always commands the top
the market. '
1 Georgia, in 1880, according to the
census, produced 814,441 bales. Of
ONE DOLLAR A YEAR
STRICTLY IN ADVANCE.
this amount Harris county is credited
with 12,677 bales; Talbot 10, 2^;
Meriwether 15,tjjj ; Troop t 8,0 " ;
and Coweta with 16,282. 'The five
counties, produce 73,093 ba’es, or
one-eleventh part of the crop of the
state; while the area of improved
lands in them is but one nineteenth
of the ar^a of the slate.
Conjmeicial fertilizers have ma le
middle west Georgia the cotton cen
ter of the state.
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FCr tbfe-Hamilton J ouknai .
CURRENT EVENTS.
'The gieat topic of conversation
last week and this is the exposition
Atlanta and the tair at Macon. It
is amusin g how various are the state
ments of the two occasions, but all
a 8 ree ^ al eac * 1 was a 8 raru * success
aiK ^ a( ids anothei diamond to the
coronet of Gecrgia. But one fc.u
ure of both ought.to be left out, that
horse racing and the gambling that
follows it.
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Another sensation is Miss Abbott 1 ;
interruption of the services in Me
Kendree Methodist chinch in Nash
ville. it is surely surprising that a
minister of the gospel cannot preach
against theaters without interruption
and a speech from a madonna. S ric
was there by accident, as she herseli
said, and perhaps mistook the occa
sion and place.
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There seems to be quiet in railroad
circles and no railroad of importance
has been “gobbled up.” Still a v.i
riety of railroad enterprises are con¬
templated and same wilf be built, but
which one deponent saith not.
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President and Mrs. Cleveland and
party have returned ’ to Washington.
The President’s tour has been a
grand ovation everywhere aruP with¬
out casualty except at Memphis.
Judge Ellett, after delivering a most
eleganrt and scboitrly*address of wel¬
come and after the Presidential party
hacHetired, died on the platform.
Such*te life.
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R.fehJ)un& Co.’s Review of Trade
for the week reports a decline, -n
prices in almost every branch « r
trade, not from scarcity of money,but
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